Source: The Bulwark
by Patrick Eddington
“Compared to his predecessors, Donald Trump has moved faster and on a much larger scale to target individuals, categories of people, and organizations for reasons personal (think ‘revenge tour’) and political (think mass deportations, attacks on law firms). If a future Congress ever wants to prevent a repeat of these kinds of abuses, there are many specific reforms that should be enacted. But it’s not enough to focus narrowly on Trump’s actions. The presidents who came before him set their own precedents and examples — often affirmed by Congress and the courts — that have also contributed to the present breakdown of our constitutional order. If Congress and the courts had not ceded so much raw, coercive power to the presidency, we might not now be facing a chief executive busily subverting the few remaining meaningful constitutional safeguards separating a republic from a tyranny.” (06/05/25)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-tyranny-proof-americas-future-trump-law-enforcement